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A Short History Of County Wicklow

elcome to the IRELAND GENEALOGICAL PROJECT ~ COUNTY WICKLOW PAGE. County Wicklow is a county on the east coast of Ireland between County Dublin to the north and County Wexford to the south.The County of Wicklow is named after it’s principal town Wicklow. The Irish name for Wicklow county is Cill Mhantain. Comprising of 494,704 statute acres, the county stretches forty and a half miles from North to South and thirty three miles from East to West. Divided into eight baronies, through which the county had been governed since the 16th Century. The county’s physical shape has always had a great impact on its history, and divides the County into three distinct regions; the low lying strip along the east coast, the mountains and valleys of the centre and the west and southern less mountainous area. The eastland lowland strip being the most fertile and populous and fertile -stretches from Bray to Arklow, and has the longest history of habitation. The earliest recorded mention of this region is in the writings of the Greek Cartographer Ptomely in circa 130 A.D., the only surviving name from those maps is the that of the Avoca River spelt Ovoca by Ptomely. Renamed by a local Landlord in the 19th Century to Avoca, possibly inspired by the Greek’s records. By far the largest area in the county is the central and western region of mountains, rivers, lakes and valleys. Starting in Dublin these granite Mountains run down the whole County, rising at their highest point, Lungnaquilla, to 3,039 feet, crowning the most extensive mountain range in Ireland. The range is intersected by a number of great glens, most notably Glendalough, Glenmalure and Glen of Imaal. The rugged beauty of these uplands in contrast to the lowlands have helped give Co Wicklow, the name Garden of Ireland.

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